Improvement in carriage-seats



HENRY W. QUIN, OF ANDERSON, INDIANAf IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-SEVATS.

Specication forning part of Letters Patent No. 146,278, dated January 6, 1874; application filed August 5, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. QUIN, of Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oarriages; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making part oi' this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, showing the carriage arranged for two seats. Fig. 8 is a similar section, showing it arranged for one seat; and Fig. 4 is` a front elevation of the front seat.

'lhe same letters are employed in the designation of the parts when appearing in differ ent gures.

This invention relates to that class of carriages which are adjustable as to their seats, commonly known as jump-seated carriages 5 and consists in a novel mode of adjusting the front seat, so that it may be either used as such, or placed under the other seat when the carriage is adjusted for one seat only. The manner of attaching and supporting this seat constitutes the invention, which will be distinctly set forth in the following specification andclaim. y

In the annexed drawings, A indicates the body of the carriage, the form of which may, however, be moditied at will, so long as the necessary support for the seats remain. B is a seat which remains constantly in position for use, though its relative position is continually changed in converting the carriage to one or two seats. When the carriage is used with a single seat, the seat B is placed as shown in Fig. 3, resting on the sides et' the carriage, dowel-pins D being attached to the seat to hold it in position. rIhe seat is attached to the body by two hinges, C C, pivoted tothe former, and also to a bracket or leaf bolted to the body in such manner that the dowel-pins4 may be lifted out of their recesses and the seat moved back, swinging on the hinge-straps until it rests on the rear end of the frame, as shown in Fig. 2. A similarly oscillating seat,

D, is attached by similarly hinged straps E E to the body of the carriage in such manner that when the seat B is swung back it may be replaced by the seat D. Curved legs F are attached by pivots to the bottom of seat D, and so formed that when the seat D is raised the ends of the legs may be swung outward and rested on the body of the carriage in the recesses formed to receive the front dowel-pins of seat B. Arm or side pieces G G are also hinged to the seat D, near eachend, so arranged that they may be raised, as shown in Fig. 4., or folded upon thebottom ofthe seat, as indicated by the dottedA lines in the same iigure.

To convert the carriage into a double seated vehicle, the seat B is turned back, and the scat D raised until its legs F F rest on the seat-rail. Vhen it is to be changed to a singleseated vehicle, the seat D must be raised until the ends ot' the legs F F are disengaged from the recesses in the seat-rail, and then the legs turned toward one another, and the seat swung down upon the door, as shown in Fig. 3, resting on the legs and straps E. Then the seat B should be swung forward so as to rest on the body in the middle thereof and over the seat D, which will be concealed and protected by it.

I am aware that there are many carriages in use similarly convertible into single or double HENRY w. Quin.

Witnesses:

J AMES BAIN, H. XV. WHITE. 

